Monday, January 7, 2013

“The local media has been restrained and responsible"

Franklin Matters contributor, Rich Aucoin has succeeded in getting media attention to how the media is covering the MA lab scandal with this article in the Milford Daily News.

“It’s a strange case in terms of drawing analogies to because it’s not a violent crime,” Bayles said. “It’s not even so much a financial crime. And in some ways that may be why it was hard to get stuff out. I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘Who is this person?’ There was not a lot of detail about Dookhan.”

He said that realizing the scope of the scandal presented a challenge to everyone mired in it and that showed in the coverage.

“It was sort of a slow boil in terms of people, especially in the media, understanding the implications of the case,” he said.